03 October 2011 | Humideco Ltd

EcoMist HVAC at Canary Wharf

Tall buildings present particular difficulties for designers of building services: high heat loads across floors mean high demands for cooling, year round.

For the provision of comfort humidification, this is less than ideal, as cooling often means dehumidification and low supply air temperatures, reducing the scope for moisture absorption.

Humideco have recently installed the low energy EcoMist HVAC system into two large fresh air plants at Canary Wharf to allow humidified air to be introduced at each floor. Each AHU handles 70m3/hr and the capacity of each humidifier is 800 kg/hr, too high a requirement for most other humidification methods to be a practical option.

The EcoMist HVAC system effectively combines the benefits of two humidification principles in a single system. High pressure atomization using our unique, ceramic EcoMist nozzles is combined with DropStop evaporation modules.

The result is a highly controlleable, efficient and hygienic humidifier, particularly suited to larger air handling units. The EcoMist systems replaced the original unsuccessful evaporative humidifiers, which were not able to operate at the required level of efficiency or reliability.